Q. Show the Octal Number System?
Though this was once a popular number base, especially in the Digital Equipment Corporation PDP/8 and other old computer systems, it is rarely used today. The Octal system is base on the binary system with a 3-bit boundary. An Octal Number System:
Uses base 8
Includes only the digits 0 through 7 (any other digit would make the number an invalid octal number)
The weighted values for every position are as follows:
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8^5
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8^4
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8^3
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8^2
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8^1
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8^0
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32768
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4096
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512
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64
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8
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1
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